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Pierce
Brosnan
"There
are certain parameters you have to adhere to. But this is a Bond for the 1990s.
Martin Campbell is a wonderful filmmaker, and with his sensibilities we're really
going to try and push the envelope on this and shake it up. This is nothing against
Roger and his interpretation, which is very valid. But for me, Sean Connery was
James Bond. He had a killer instinct. There was a certain ruthlessness and an
edge to the character that has been lacking, mixed in with the humor and getting
the woman. I think the element of danger would have to be brought back. I think
you'd have to go right back to the beginning and find what Ian Fleming put on
paper."
- Pierce Brosnan"You
are very much caught in a time warp when you're doing Bond films. It's like a
bloody period piece, no matter how up-to-date they try to be. Its strengths are
also its weaknesses. It's formulaic. You save the world, you get the woman; nothing
changes... The one-liners become very tired, very quickly. Some of them are witty,
but most of them aren't. I always felt I was treading water in the wake of Roger
Moore, who knew how to do them with such aplomb and self-deprecation. I was always
striving for deeper character investigation and trying to establish real relationships
with the other characters, but in the end, it all came down to girls and guns
and gadgets."
- Pierce Brosnan, "Toronto Star," 2006
Stills from Brosnan's 2004 audition:
"He's
a good actor. He'll add some new elements to it."
- Sean Connery, "Entertainment
Weekly," 1995
"Both Sean Connery, who created the role, and I will be long
forgotten after everyone sees how great Pierce is."
- Roger Moore, "The
Hollywood Reporter"
"I can tell you I was more of a fitting Bond than
Brosnan. Bond is supposed to be a nice bastard. Brosnan is just nice. Bond is
supposed to walk in a room and be able to fight 3 guys at once. If Brosnan walked
into a room, I doubt anyone would look up. But this is the 90s and women want
a different man, a man who shows his feminine side. Pierce definitely has that."
- George Lazenby to the London "Sun," 1995
"I felt I was caught in a time warp between Roger and Sean. It was a very hard one to grasp the meaning of, for me. The violence was never real, the brute force of the man was never palpable. It was quite tame, and the characterisation didn't have a follow-through of reality, it was surface. But then that might have had to do with my own insecurities in playing him as well ... I have no desire to watch myself as James Bond. 'Cause it's just never good enough ... It's a horrible feeling."
- Brosnan to "The Telegraph" 2014 (Pierce Brosnan: 'I was never good enough as Bond', by Horatia Harrod, 10:55AM BST 12 Apr 2014)
 
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